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This update is dedicated to our recent in-person training for the Technical Committee and additional community leaders. Reflections on our Leadership Training Workshop In mid-July 2016, 20 members of the OpenStack community including Technical Committee members current and past, PTLs current and past, other Community members and additional supporting facilitators met for a 2 day… Read more »

It has been a while since our last highlight post so this one is full of updates. New release tag: cycle-trailing This is a new addition to the set of tags describing the release models. This tag aims to allow specific projects for doing releases after the OpenStack release has been cut. This tag is… Read more »

Long time, no see! Poppy and our Open Core discussion The Poppy team applied to add the project under OpenStack governance. Poppy, for those of you not familiar with it, provides CDN as a service. It’s a provisioning service – like other projects in OpenStack, such as Nova – but for CDNs. The overall proposal… Read more »

Upstream development track – please submit We’ll have an “Upstream development” track at the Austin Summit. It will happen on the Monday, before the Design Summit starts. This is a classic Summit conference track with recorded videos, so we want polished proposals for this track. We expect these to include general communication about development process… Read more »

Summary This month, the developer.openstack.org site gets a new look and changes its source tooling. Read on for details about how these changes affect your project team. Why are we changing the developer.openstack.org site? You might know that the developer.openstack.org site documents over 900GET/PUT/POST/DELETE/PATCH calls for a dozen OpenStack services already on the developer.openstack.org site. As a couple of… Read more »

Welcome back from Tokyo. While there, I did not realize a three-dimensional subway map exists for Tokyo, but I sure loved traveling on the subway. Welcoming the latest projects to OpenStack Speaking of amazing cities and their subway maps, we should mention the growing list of OpenStack projects. We welcome these projects to OpenStack governance… Read more »

It’s a busy week pre-summit and pre-release so let’s jump into it. Technical Committee Elections this week There are 19 candidates for 6 positions in this six-month cycle of TC elections. Active Technical Contributors (ATCs) should have an email in their inbox to use to vote in this election. Sign into review.openstack.org and then go… Read more »

Tagging efforts for diversity and deprecation policies Since tagging projects for a percentage of diverse affiliations, we are also discussing the idea of an inverse tag to indicate non-diversity. Some of us on the TC are unsure that a lack of diversity is an indicator that the project isn’t useful or successful, especially in the… Read more »

New kids on the block There have been some new project team requests since the last post. Here’s a list of new project teams that have requested to join the OpenStack Big Tent and a summary of the discussions: The OpenStack Community App Catalog team has requested to join the Big Tent and they have… Read more »

This week, the Technical Committee will not hold the regular Tuesday meeting. Here’s a round up of the discussions and decisions from the last week or so. Let us know how these posts are working for you by emailing, tweeting, commenting, or finding us on IRC. Midway focus points for the TC “Technical discussions are… Read more »